Royal Caribbean
Anthem of the Seas Drops Icy Strait Point Over Speed Restrictions
Royal Caribbean will cancel prepaid Icy Strait Point excursions automatically, while guests booked with independent operators must seek refunds directly.
Ovation of the Seas
Royal Caribbean
LTH Baas Refurbishes Five Royal Caribbean Group Ships in Drydock
Onboard teams of up to 150 workers coordinated concurrent trades within limited drydock windows on Ovation of the Seas, Star of the Seas and three other vessels.
Norwegian Cruise Line
Vancouver Cruise Growth Highlights Canada Place Shore-Power Gap
About 80 percent of Vancouver’s annual cruise calls involve shore-power-equipped ships, but Canada Place can connect only two vessels at once when three or four are alongside.
Virgin Voyages
Vancouver Plans Shore-Power Expansion After Record Cruise Season
The expansion is expected to enable about 90 additional ship connections a year and cut an estimated 3,300 tonnes of greenhouse-gas emissions each cruise season.
News
Canada Place to Add Two Shore-Power Stations by 2027
On September 27, Princess Cruises’ Star Princess became the largest vessel by gross tonnage to call at Canada Place, with its overnight passage timed around low tide.
Royal Caribbean
Royal Caribbean Opens 2028 Alaska Cruises With Four Ships
Passengers embarking in Seward will use a new terminal developed by Royal Caribbean Group and the Alaska Railroad, with a rail link for inland-stay transfers.
Royal Caribbean
Royal Caribbean Cancels Ovation's 2027 Los Angeles Cruises
Ovation’s Los Angeles stay will end before 2028, with Brisbane next on its deployment plan for three- to eight-night itineraries after November 2027 cancellations.
Royal Caribbean
Hurricane Polo Reroutes Navigator of the Seas Mexican Riviera Cruise
The National Hurricane Center classified Polo as a Category Five hurricane with maximum sustained winds of one hundred sixty miles per hour near Manzanillo, Mexico.
Norwegian Cruise Line
NOAA Probes Dead Fin Whale Found on Norwegian Joy Near Sitka
Passengers began disembarking about two hours late. Norwegian extended the Sitka call by one hour, and crews towed the carcass away from the cruise terminal.
Carnival Cruise Line
Carnival Opens Sales for 144 Long Beach Cruises in 2028-29
Carnival began Long Beach operations in 2003, and the expanded geodesic dome terminal beside the Queen Mary reopened with Carnival Splendor in February 2018.
Royal Caribbean
Passenger Airlifted From Ovation of the Seas Off British Columbia
A CC-295 Kingfisher arrived first to coordinate positioning before a CH-149 Cormorant lowered rescue technicians, who stabilized the patient for a stretcher hoist.
Royal Caribbean
Royal Caribbean to Base Three Ships in Australia for 2027-28
Ovation of the Seas’ redeployment cancels a November 22, 2027 Los Angeles-to-Ensenada cruise, with guests offered a Navigator of the Seas transfer or a full refund.